Being a Democrat not only means never having to say you’re sorry, but also means getting to pretend that history never happened. The Democrats’ official party website is proof of that, as its section on “Our History” declares, with all the chutzpah of the proverbail defendant who murders his parents and begs the court’s mercy on grounds of being an orphan, that: For more than | Read More »

This month we “celebrate” the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. As most are aware, this ruling swept aside racial segregation in public education which persisted in many states. When it was decided in 1954, the 11 southern states, DC plus six other states had segregated schools and it was optional in another four states. Some estimates state | Read More »

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder, Rep. Sensenbrenner and Senator Leahy have introduced legislation which they hope will “correct” the infirmities of the original Voting Rights Act last updated in 2006. To recap, at issue in Shelby County was the formula used to determine which states or political subdivisions were to covered under Section 5. That section is | Read More »

In December of 1865, the several American states ratified the thirteenth amendment constitutionally ending involuntary servitude in the United States. In the twenty-first century, Americans are coming full circle. In a number of states, a black man can again be forced by the government to work involuntarily for a white man. Not since the nation eliminated Jim Crow laws during the civil rights era have | Read More »

“The ends justify the means” is one of the most poisonous ideas of the modern era. I limit this assessment to the modern era because prior to that, means tended to justify themselves. The advent of democracy obliged Ruling Class types across the Western world to do a bit better than “because I said so” to secure obedience from their subjects. The end result is, if anything, | Read More »

Each and every day thousands, if not millions of children are sent into failing schools in this country. Impoverished communities have the highest risk of having schools that don’t prepare the children to graduate with a high school degree much less a college one. A sea of bright children cast into the darkness of failed educational policies. This is National School Choice Week. An entire | Read More »

The Grand Old Party, the party responsible for the vast majority of civil rights legislation, began in a little schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854. A small assembly of abolitionists came together to bring an end to the institution of slavery. This tiny group of individuals eventually gave way to a political party dedicated to freedom, equal opportunity and civil rights. The name “Republican” alludes | Read More »

Fifty years ago today a WWII hero that stared down the Soviet Union during the Cold War’s Cuban Missile Crisis apogee was murdered by Communist. Watching much of the news coverage from that time and since, you might conclude that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been assassinated by racist Southerners in Texas, thanks to the far left in the Democratic Party and the news media | Read More »

The Liar-in-Chief is exposed as his signature Obamacare implodes and 720,000 drop out of the workforce in one month. Insurance policy cancellations and security lapses at HealthCare.gov (when potential victims of identity theft can get the website to “work”) have interrupted the body politic long enough. Time for Democrats to roll out their favorite pets to distract Americans from serial failures while branding Republicans as heartless | Read More »

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but for both.” Selective outrage is something we’ve come to accept as “normal” because of the Left’s constant use of it and the mainstream media’s approval of a huge majority of what the Left deems appropriate. Big names such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who claim to be civil rights advocates, | Read More »

As everyone should be well aware, Eric Holder- the Roland Freisler of the Obama administration- recently announced to the Urban League that he would seek “preclearance” of any election law changes in the state of Texas. The reason, he claims, is because of persistent discrimination against blacks and Hispanics in that state when it comes to voting rights. There was a time when the Supreme | Read More »

“They are the most conservative Court since 1937.” “They are very pro-business.” “They are out to roll back affirmative action and civil rights and expand the role of religion in America.” “The Court is cutting the rights of the accused in criminal cases.” Read any mainstream media article and one will find some of these accusations against the Roberts Court. Maybe they are in the | Read More »

It is not actually a rare day when we can get more than one stupid quote from a liberal, but in the interest of brevity, this writer usually limits it to one quote. But yesterday, because of the Supreme’s Court decision that invalidated one part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we were treated to several stupid quotes. Most of them are of the | Read More »

With the Supreme Court taking on two different same sex marriage cases, two seemingly related yet in this case opposing American concepts are clashing: The right to free association and individual liberty, and the right to practice one’s religion. The Supreme Court will take on the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage in California. However, the | Read More »

You can always trust the government. They practice morality on a much higher plane than the money-mongers grubbing for the filthy lucre down in the private sector. It’s a good thing they exist to be morally pure and impartial to all sides. Oh, Wait! They don’t. They are just as likely to be corrupt, duplicitous, and falsely self-seeking in the name of the commonweal. In Iowa they have mechanized corruption so that it happens efficiently as a manageable risk of governance.

The Des Moines Register reports that for five years ending in February 2011, the Iowa Civil Rights Commission shook down landlords for “voluntary contributions” in exchange for dropping discrimination complaints. The Register obtained copies of 27 settlement agreements involving about $20,000 in contributions.